Lead Data Engineer
Cypher GamesMobile Gaming company
IstanbulLead
The Raine Group
Play Ventures
MIT
E2VC
Big Bets
Humam Sakhnini
Data & AI
About the role
TL;DR
Lead Data Engineer to own and shape the company's data platform and infrastructure.
- •At Cypher Games, data is core to improving player experience.
- •As Lead Data Engineer, you will own and shape the data platform, defining architecture, technical direction, and best practices for scalable decision-making.
- •Key Responsibilities Own the architecture and evolution of Cypher's data platform.
- •Design, build, and maintain scalable ETL/ELT pipelines and data models.
- •Lead technical decisions around data warehouse, orchestration, and infrastructure.
- •Establish best practices for data quality, governance, monitoring, security, and performance.
- •Build reliable data infrastructure for analytics, experimentation, and live game operations.
- •Requirements Bachelor's degree in Computer Engineering, Computer Science, Software Engineering, Mathematics, or a related field. 5+ years of experience in Data Engineering, including owning data platforms or leading technical initiatives.
- •Experience in the gaming industry or a similar technology-driven consumer product company.
- •Strong expertise in SQL and Python.
- •Deep understanding of modern data architecture, ETL/ELT pipelines, and data modeling.
Required skills
SQLPythonGoogle CloudBigQueryAirflow
Nice-to-have skills
dbtApache Kafka
Domain expertise
gaming
Tech stack
PythonSQLGoogle CloudBigQueryAirflowdbt
